OH OH - Another Cute Cat Picture!

We bought Jake a kitty bed yesterday. It's a tight squeeze (he's a big kitty!) but he seems to like it.

Update From Maine

Here we are just past the 4th of July and we've been in Maine almost 2 months now. The weather hasn't been all we had hoped for. Lots of cloudy, cool weather and enough rain to keep us off the hiking and biking trails. Most of the hikes around here involve travel over exposed granite rock which gets VERY slippery when wet. We've only hiked 5 times so far this season! Twice up Gorham Mt., twice up Flying Mt. and once at Cutler. The 2 mountains are here on MDI (Mount Desert Island) and Cutler is an almost 3 hour drive "down east." It's one of Maine's "public reserve" lands, areas set aside for recreational use like a park. Cutler is unique in that it has a few miles of Maine sea coast. A hike of about 1.5 miles takes you to cliffs overlooking the ocean. The view is spectacular and you don't have to share it with lots of other people. On our July 3rd trip there we saw a total of 8 other people. We think it's well worth the long drive!

Shortly after arriving here we went into Bar Harbor and bought 2 used bikes from Acadia Bike, one of the bike rental companies around here. Last year we also bought 2 used bikes from them. We left those bikes in Arizona, so now we have bikes in both locations and we don't have to drag bikes across the country. We do most of our biking here on the carriage road system. Built by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., this approx 50 mile system is open to pedestrians, bikes and horses but no motorized traffic is allowed. It's some of the best biking we've found so for!

	Taking a break on the carriage road at Bubble Pond.
	Part of the Cutler coast.